1850
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
A Lock on the Stour, Suffolk is a 1850 by John Constable, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
John Constable made a print called *A Lock on the Stour, Suffolk* in the mid 1800s. It’s a landscape done in mezzotint. The Victoria and Albert Museum says it’s part of a top-notch series of 22 prints. Mezzotint is tricky. It uses a rough metal plate to catch light and shadow. Constable picked his best sketches to turn into prints here. Look up David Lucas next.
This mezzotint by David Lucas reproduces John Constable’s depiction of boys fishing at Flatford Lock in Suffolk, with the footbridge and Bridge Cottage visible in the background. Part of the series *Various Subjects of English Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery*, the print was created between 1830 and 1832, with later editions issued after Constable’s death in 1837. Lucas’s engraving translates Constable’s original oil sketches and paintings into mezzotint, emphasizing the play of light and shadow across the landscape. The work reflects Constable’s effort to promote English scenery…
Read the full account in the museum source.
John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.
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